"Science: Good, Bad and Bogus" was a huge influence. I once saw someone walking at high speed down Cambridge Heath Road (this would probably have been early 1990). They were reading a book. As they passed me, I saw that it was "Science: Good, Bad and Bogus". Which is the kind of book that you'd expect a reading walker to be reading.

"The Annotated Alice" is well worth the effort as is "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener".